Mentone Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Mentone Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Mentone Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (46) and tree cover (74). Transit (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal dumping leads the 311 file on Mentone Avenue, with 11 reports. The whole 311 file on Mentone Avenue holds 118 reports, and illegal dumping is 9% of it. Behind it sits heat and hot water, with 10 reports. The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 148 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. 114 residential buildings on Mentone Avenue hold the 148 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Mentone Avenue ranks 39 on quietness and 10 on infrastructure. Mentone Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Parking ranks 23 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 13. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 6. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. Mentone Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Mentone Avenue is traffic safety, at 46.
Of the 148 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Mentone Avenue runs through Laurelton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).